The Northridge Earthquake, January 17, 1994

Interjurisdictional response system involved

• Rapid mobilization of the disaster response system in both numbers of personnel and numbers of organizations and jurisdictions
  
  
• Significant investment in information technology to support the evolving system, involving six different types of information technology
  
  
• Rapid increase in requests for assistance by persons who suffered losses from the earthquake
  
  
• Significant expansion in numbers of tasks and arenas of performance in response and recovery operations
  
  
• Actual performance of the response system to meet the social and physical needs of the damaged community